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Recent Examples of quackery
Yet medical quackery continues to exist in various forms, and the spread of misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic is among the most timely and notable examples.
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Jordan Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Stirring up antipathy is always going to be an occupational hazard for people who study misinformation, rumors, pseudoscience and quackery.
—F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Science and quackery cannot be treated as having scientific and moral equivalence.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Health The science of placebos is fueling quackery The placebo effect is real.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
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Last summer, an exponentially growing audience of fans watched her fall head-over-heels for Brit Aaron Evans, only to be left heartbroken over his deception and sobbing to an entirely too appropriate Sabrina Carpenter song chosen by the show's editors.—
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Finding The Right Balance The cost of workplace deception is more than just a nasty surprise come employee feedback day.—
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Mafalda is a young girl who hates soup and hypocrisy and loves democracy and the Beatles.—
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Unfortunately, her story has become a symbol of hypocrisy rather than hope.—
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The entire texture of that life, its willed imposture.—
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Body Double Long before the imposture of Anna Delvey, the Tichborne Claimaint swept a nation’s imagination.—
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Blurring The Lines Of Academic Integrity As AI tools become more accessible, the boundary between acceptable support and academic dishonesty is increasingly unclear.—
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But their mixture of love, dishonesty, competition and aggression may also remind viewers of two other sets of brothers: Jacob and Esau, and Cain and Abel.—
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In the 21st century, varying degrees of financial deceit — from the Enron accounting scandal to the devastating consequences of massive Ponzi schemes like the one run by Bernie Madoff — continue to impact people across the country.—
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Every fraudulent claim becomes part of the data used to set next year’s rates, creating a feedback loop where today’s deceit has the potential to become tomorrow’s financial burden.—
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No, the movies in the novel are real, the suffering is real, the evasions and duplicities are real.—
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That yearning involves no duplicity or threats to others.—
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“Quackery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quackery. Accessed 28 Jul. 2025.
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